Last week commemorated 70 years since the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended WWII. This week will recall Japan’s eventual surrender, as the Emperor overruled his governing military chiefs who wanted a national fight to the death. A dramatic and dignified ceremony two weeks later on the USS Missouri with General MacArthur presiding would conclude the most lethal calamity in human history, with over 50 million dead.
(Read the rest of the article here.)
No comments yet
